From early childhood I was fettered with the belief that I...

Muriel M. Hunt

From early childhood I was fettered with the belief that I had inherited organic heart disease. I never knew what it was to be able to enjoy tennis, swimming, and other sports, and I often wondered why God who is Love had made me different from other children. Many bitter tears were shed because I could not understand. After leaving school I took up the necessary training for the teaching profession, only to find after two years that had to be given up also because I could not stand the strain. I had treatment and advice through the years from fourteen different doctors, and each one lovingly and sympathetically told me that I should always be the same and that I must just live quietly, take part in no strenuous exercise, and avoid hilly country. Thus I missed much joy and the pleasure of visiting beautiful scenery.

In 1924 I was sent to the city hospital with diphtheria. The antitoxin administered appeared to cause a very aggravated condition of the heart and a long illness followed. According to the medical view, for thirteen months I was kept going by taking a very powerful medicine.

In September, 1925, I borrowed the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and in six weeks I found myself able to take a four and a half mile walk without feeling any fatigue. In October my gratitude for the increased strength was so great that I felt I must become an earnest student of Christian Science, and I purchased the textbook.

Whilst spending a holiday in Harrogate the following August I suddenly became very ill. I knew the dread symptoms all too well, and as I stood in the street I asked myself, Can I trust God and Christian Science sufficiently to take my stand? I decided I would do so, and went back to the hotel, where I spent two or three hours studying. Then I went to bed. The next morning I was too ill to get up. I took my Bible and it fell open at John 14, where I read, "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me." I lay pondering these words and the thought came to me, Yes, I believe in God, infinite good, but what is this "me"? Then I saw that it meant the healing Christ. I went on reading the chapter until I came to the words, "Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." Suddenly like a flash of light I saw that it was the fears of a lifetime which were holding me in bondage. I had believed that life depended on a material heart. Having realized this great fact I took up my textbook for further light. It opened at page 330 and I read, "God is infinite, the only Life." Well, I thought, if God is the only Life, He surely is my Life. For a while I pondered this beautiful truth, and taking up my textbook again I found some pages had turned over, and I read on page 264, "When we realize that Life is Spirit, never in nor of matter, this understanding will expand into self-completeness, finding all in God, good, and needing no other consciousness." Then the great truth of being dawned on my awakened consciousness and I saw clearly that since God is my Life and Life is not in matter, then a material heart had nothing whatever to do with my Life, which is God; and I was instantaneously healed.

Three days later I was climbing the steep ascents at Knaresborough. When I arrived at the top, the friend who was with me said, "How have you done it?" I replied, "I have not done it, God has." She asked what I meant, and I explained to her that she had witnessed a demonstration in Christian Science. This friend had visited me when I was ill and knew all the facts of the case, and she said, "Well, if I had not seen it myself, I should never have believed it." This healing has been permanent. I now have my own little home, do all my own housework, dig my own garden, and do whatever I wish to do without the slightest fatigue. Truly, I have come out of the old bondage into the glorious freedom of the truth.

My gratitude is unbounded for Christian Science, which has given me a loving Father-Mother God; to Christ Jesus the Way-shower for his wonderful words and works; and to our loved Leader, through whose fidelity to Truth and unselfed love thousands are being led from bondage into liberty. I should also like to express my gratitude to the Directors of The Mother Church for their loyality in carrying forward the Cause of Truth, also for our periodicals which are so helpful, and for class instruction which is proving to be a very great blessing to me.

(Miss) Muriel M. Hunt, Hull, Yorkshire, England.

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